According to EJINHUA, the effects of the war activity are quickly evident, immediately after the first period of euphoria. First of all, production and trade contract. Industrial production, which in 1938 was 14.1% higher than that of 1928, shows a gradual reduction and reaches an average level of 35% in the year 1943, lower than… Read More »
With July 25, 1943, the curves of economic phenomena are amply affected by the consequences of a political upheaval, the continuation of the war on the whole territory with intensified destructive actions, the double occupation and the political division of the territory. The fabric of legislative provisions, which had been tightened up in 1940-43 and… Read More »
According to THEFREEGEOGRAPHY, Italian economic policy has gone through two phases, in many ways different from each other, in the last fifteen years. The first, which lasted about eleven years, can be called a war economy, even if the war was limited to a total of seven years (Ethiopian conflict, intervention in the Spanish civil… Read More »
Borders. – With the agreements between Italy and Yugoslavia relating to the territory of Trieste, a provisional solution was adopted in 1954 according to which “Zone A” (210.12 km 2) was entrusted to the Italian administration and “Zone B” (529 km 2) remained with the Yugoslav civil administration. On 10 November 1975 the Italian government signed a… Read More »
The evolution of the Italian economy from 1960 onwards – which has been said so far – is the result of multiple economic and non-economic factors, which very often have their roots in the years prior to 1960. Therefore, for a better understanding the phenomena that conditioned the economic system of our country in the… Read More »
City people In Italy (about 300,000 km 2) live today just under 58 million residents; of these, about two thirds live in cities – if we consider cities, centers with at least 10,000 residents. In other advanced countries the population considered urban is more numerous, but the statistics do not tell us how deep and ancient… Read More »
Italy The Peninsula par excellence According to HOLIDAYSORT, Italy is not only the most famous peninsula in the world – the peninsula par excellence – or the ‘Bel Paese’ of tourists: it is a land where peoples from all over Europe and the Mediterranean have had the opportunity to confront each other, giving shape and development to… Read More »
Gross inland consumption of energy in Italy amounts to 146 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) and the energy mix is characterized by the preponderance in the use of oil and natural gas, a resource which, despite the economic decline due to the contraction in consumption, it has been acquiring an increasing weight on national consumption, reaching… Read More »
According to LOCALTIMEZONE, the perception of how much the traditional organization of the city can negatively affect the quality of life is part of a broader perception, which concerns the management of natural resources and environmental protection, and which, which emerged at the beginning of the 1970s, it is increasingly rooted in social consciousness, so… Read More »
According to ITYPEAUTO, the dominant notes of the demographic transformation can be summarized as follows: slowdown in the birth rate, contraction in emigration and increase in immigration, aging, approaching zero growth (see also census, in this Appendix). At the demographic census of 1971, that is, on the eve of the political-social crisis of the 1970s,… Read More »
According to ELAINEQHO, the national urban network has been defining itself during the nineties according to highly articulated processes that require a precise reading of increasingly characterized and diversified local realities: on the one hand, the evolution of urban spaces has accelerated from a linear conformation towards areal forms more extensive and widespread; on the… Read More »
According to ACEINLAND, the European aspirations which, from Futurism onwards, had animated the liveliest currents of Italian art, found, in the historical climate of the post-war period, the most propitious conditions for their development. This was favored not only by the intensification of international exchanges, but also by the stimulating activity of a responsible and… Read More »
Flora According to ITYPETRAVEL, Italy has a high floristic richness: about 6800 species of vascular plants, 1130 bryophytes and a much greater number, although not exactly definable, of Prokaryotes, Protists, Algae and Mushrooms. The Italian vascular flora includes almost half of the species present in Europe and is also distinguished by a high number of… Read More »
Interesting from the ethnographic point of view, are the works that shepherds and peasants prepare with wood, bone, horn, pumpkin, cane and other materials. Such works which include tools and utensils of various kinds (horn glasses, snuffboxes, powder horns for hunting, flasks, pegs, butter molds, bread stamps, spoons, bowls, cones, bust sticks, collars cows and sheep,… Read More »
The national, literary and official language of the whole of Germany, the Republic of Austria and a large part of Switzerland, also extended either as a linguistic unit or as a dialectal complex to peripheral areas and to numerous dialectal islands in alloglot lands, is German (deutsch). This adjective, derived from a Germanic noun meaning… Read More »
The French cultural and literary preponderance, which was already felt in the 12th century, triumphed in the second half of this century with the introduction of the life of chivalry. The German vocabulary absorbed in this period innumerable elements of the new French civilization. As the terms of the life of chivalry (abenteuer, preis, harnisch,… Read More »
Among the linguistic forces which, once the cavalry has faded, establish a new, unitary German against the use of literary dialects, more in keeping with the changed times, the action of Chancellorish German was much more powerful than the grammars (based on Italian models). Having passed the court in Vienna with Albert II, especially thanks… Read More »
With the end of the century. IX opens a new period in the history of Germanic law: the period that is properly called the Middle Ages (for the previous period, see Germanics, peoples: Law). It spans the centuries of the Middle Ages from the end of the century. IX at the end of the century.… Read More »
With the end of the century. XV, also opens for the history of Germanic law, the modern period, which witnesses the decline and the end of the ancient institution of the Roman Empire as a Germanic nation, an institution that was overtaken by the dominance of sovereign territorial principalities. One of these principalities, that of… Read More »
The cut that defines, a quo, the present picture of German literature is evidently extrinsic and occasional; and yet, by a singular and almost punctual coincidence, as the passage from the old to the new decade, almost suddenly, the situation was radically changed with respect to the immediate past; and this not so much because in… Read More »
The four hundred years that pass from the middle of the century. The fourteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, the centuries of the Renaissance, were a period of tiring labor for literary Germany, at the end of which an admirable new flowering was to reward it in a short time for the long wait. In the… Read More »
In Germany, lands of all ages are represented, starting with the archaic. The rocks of the mountains that form the edge of the Bohemian Basin, the Bavarian Forest, correspond to the latter; there is some in the Fichtelgebirge, in the Ore Mountains and in the Sudetes (Giant Mountains, Eulen). The nuclei of the Black Forest,… Read More »
The head of the populist party Costantino Tsaldaris, foreign minister in the short government of P. Pulitzas, then president of the council from 18 April, was in charge of foreign policy. The first act of the Tsaldaris government, against the legal and non-legal opposition of the other parties, was to bring the institutional plebiscite forward… Read More »
Livestock and fishing The cultivation of fodder plants with stable breeding, before the world war was in continuous increase to satisfy the need for an ever greater number of meat and dairy animals, required by the increase in population and its improved regime food. It is mainly done in NW Germany, in the Middle Mountains,… Read More »
The proud navies of the Hanseatic ports took a fatal blow both from the Cromwell Sea Act and from similar measures, adopted in other countries, which made long-distance navigation almost impossible; the repeal of the Act(1851) was the sign of liberation, and the fleets of Hamburg and Bremen nearly doubled in 7 years (1851-57). But the German navy… Read More »
The oldest information preserved by the historical tradition around Germanic populations dates back to the second half of the century. IV a. C. and comes to us from the Massiliot Pitea. The first to have direct contact with the Germans were the Romans, who entered into relations with them in Gaul. As we know from… Read More »
Following the marvelous development of economic activity over the past decades, communications and transportation in Germany were greatly improved; and this improvement in turn gave more impetus to trade. The improvement did not consist only in the number of communication routes that were put in excellent condition, but also in the facilities that were made… Read More »
On March 13, 1938, the territories of the Austrian republic became part of the German Reich as a Land. On the basis of the results of the Munich convention of 29 September 1938, the Sudetic territories also became part of the Reich. The following data update voice Germany for the territories belonging to the Reich first… Read More »
Population. – The number of residents of the regions and cities of Germany has undergone considerable variations, in addition to war warnings, due to the fact that all the Germans in Poland have been forced to move across the new border; a similar transfer was also made from Czechoslovakia (see History). Overall, it is estimated… Read More »
Distribution and population density. – The general average population density per square kilometer is 134, but the population is far from being evenly distributed. In fact, if we disregard the urban circle of Berlin and the small states made up of the cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, we find that some states and provinces… Read More »